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Yoseph laid up grain as the sand of the sea, very much, until he stopped counting, for it
was without number.
To Yoseph were born two sons before the year of famine came, whom Asenath,
the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, bore to him. Yoseph called the name of the
firstborn Manasseh [causing to forget], “For,” he said, “Elohim has made me forget all
my toil, and all my father’s house.” The name of the second, he called Ephraim [double
fruit], “For Elohim has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.”
The seven years of plenty, that were in the land of Mitsrayim, came to an end.
The seven years of famine began to come, just as Yoseph had said. There was famine in
all lands, but in all the land of Mitsrayim there was bread. When all the land of
Mitsrayim was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread, and Pharaoh said to all
the Mitsrites, “Go to Yoseph. What he says to you, do.” The famine was over all the
surface of the earth. Yoseph opened all the store houses, and sold to the Mitsrites. The
famine was severe in the land of Mitsrayim. All countries came into Mitsrayim, to
Yoseph, to buy grain, because the famine was severe in all the earth.
Now Ya`aqob saw that there was grain in Mitsrayim, and Ya`aqob said to his
sons, “Why do you look at one another?” He said, “Behold, I have heard that there is
grain in Mitsrayim. Go down there, and buy for us from there, so that we may live, and
not die.” Yoseph’s ten brothers went down to buy grain from Mitsrayim. But Ya`aqob

didn’t send Benyamin, Yoseph’s brother, with his brothers; for he said, “Lest perhaps
harm happen to him.” The sons of Yisrael came to buy among those who came, for the
famine was in the land of Kayinan. Yoseph was the governor over the land. It was he
who sold to all the people of the land. Yoseph’s brothers came, and bowed themselves
down to him with their faces to the earth. Yoseph saw his brothers, and he recognized
them, but acted like a stranger to them, and spoke roughly with them. He said to them,
“Where did you come from?”
They said, “From the land of Kayinan to buy food.”
Yoseph recognized his brothers, but they didn’t recognize him. Yoseph
remembered the dreams which he dreamed about them, and said to them, “You are
spies! You have come to see the nakedness of the land.”
They said to him, “No, my lord, but your servants have come to buy food. We are
all one man’s sons; we are honest men. Your servants are not spies.”
He said to them, “No, but you have come to see the nakedness of the land!”
They said, “We, your servants, are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the
land of Kayinan; and behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is no
more.”
Yoseph said to them, “It is like I told you, saying, ‘You are spies!’ By this you
shall be tested. By the life of Pharaoh, you shall not go out from here, unless your
youngest brother comes here. Send one of you, and let him get your brother, and you
shall be bound, that your words may be tested, whether there is truth in you, or else by
the life of Pharaoh surely you are spies.” He put them all together into custody for three
days.

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